Twisted Sister Total Recall





	Name: Kathy Acquaviva Company:
	It was great working with you at Atlantic Records. Happy 25th Anniversary and have a great summer. Love, Kathy Acquaviva
July 24 2009 - 05:24 pm




	Name: Ponch Company: WIMK Bear Radio - Iron Mountai
	Twisted became my addiction the year Stay Hungry came out. I wore out multiple cassettes that summer. That album is definitely a huge bookmark in my life and I\'m glad Dee & Co are still kickin ass in 2009!!!!
July 01 2009 - 01:11 pm




	Name: mark "WEISSGUY" weiss Company:
	Hmm let me see i was the erly 80's I loved metal and heard that Twisted Sister was playing down the street from my house at the Fountan Casino in NJ. I heard a few songs and liked them- I didn't take my camera I just went there to checkem out. So there I was hanging in the back with my hands in my pockets. I wasn't the kind of guy that showed my appreciation by putting my hands in the air. So there I was just hanging and sure enough Dee stoped the show after seeing me not getting into it as the others did. Next thing you know the spotlights are on me; Dee ripping me untill I put my hands in the air. The next time Dee talked to me he asked me to shoot the "STAY HUNGRY" album; and I never thought that 25 years later we would be celebrating and swaping stories on Eddie Trunks live radio show.. Let the "TWISTED" days live on!!
June 30 2009 - 12:26 am




	Name: Paul R Company: No Company
	Sorry this is so long...bear with me. My favorite TS memory almost had a very unhappy ending. When I was around 15, me and a couple buddies had tickets to an awesome triple bill: Sister, Dokken and Y&T at the Orpheum in Boston. My buddy Jim tried to bring his little camera into the show but the lady taking tickets at the venue told us no cameras were allowed. Unable to stash the camera anywhere, I went with Jim back to his brother’s car to drop it off. We were on our way back – trekking across the Boston Common park - when the mayhem ensued. It was a little sketchy in the park after dark back in those days. All of a sudden two dudes stop us in our tracks. They were older guys - maybe 19 or 20. One of them says “We’re working with the Boston Police to try to make the park safe…there’s been a lot of crime happening here at night. You guys shouldn’t be out here unless you have a good reason.” We told him we were on our way to the TS show and the guy says “I’m going to have to see your tickets”. We didn’t want to, but he tells us we just have to prove we're not lying and we could go on our way. So we both dig into our pockets and pull out our tickets. We hold them out and then the one dude swipes both tickets and runs for the trees. We’re yelling and we lunge in his direction when the other guy pulls out Num Chucks and starts coming at us, swinging them inches from our faces. Terrified, we run in the other direction. Within seconds the dude with our tickets is long gone and Num Chucks-guy turns and runs too. There we were, a few hundred feet from the theatre, devastated with no tickets. We felt like idiots. But, lo and behold, who do we see standing on the sidewalk? The Guardian Angels. You know, those vigilante guys who fought crime and wore the berets in the 80’s? Those guys lived for this stuff, right? So, we run over and frantically explain what happened. “They went in that direction! You can catch them if you go now!!”. One of the Angels tells us “Sorry guys, we’re not allowed to get involved in any crime in this area within a certain radius”, or some kind of garbage like that. Why bother wearing the uniform and the beret if you can’t do anything?? So we try the cops next but they couldn’t care less. Then we realized that the girl taking tickets should remember us from earlier. She does remember us, but says she can’t do anything about it. And then – when it looked like all hope was lost – the tears started falling and we turned into a pathetic mess. This prompted one of the ticket agents to go grab the big boss who decided that our story seemed plausible and besides – who could fake that. He scribbled out a note for us to take inside - sort of like a permission slip – and we headed into the theatre just in time for a little Y&T action. It was a night these 2 SMF’s won’t ever forget…Twisted Sister rocked the house and we didn’t take a single note for granted.
June 29 2009 - 09:49 pm




	Name: Wayne Parry Company: Associated Press
	Wow, so many to share, from that psycho guy at the Fountain Casino in Aberdeen NJ who used to fling himself all over the dance floor when Aldo Nova's ``Fantasy'' came over the PA while waiting for Twisted to come on, to the sea of beer bottles on the floor that you'd have to surf across if you wanted to stand down front. But my one most outstanding memory involves at show at the Fountain Casino in 1983, right around Thanksgiving. Now I was a huge SMF (still am), totally into the ``give it all you've got every second of the entire show'' mentality. No one loved to see Dee tear someone a new you-know-what for not being into the show as I was _ until it happened to me. I was with this girl I was dating in college and we were pretty close to the front. I was rocking out and kicking ass the whole time, throwing my fist in the air, jumping, using my hands during ``Destroyer'' without needing to be told, the whole nine yards. And at one brief moment, my girlfriend tapped me on the shoulder. She was somewhat shorter than me, so I had to lean down to put my ear close to her so I could hear what she was saying. And of course, at THAT exact moment, Dee spies me, and goes off on me: how DARE you talk to your girlfriend instead of kicking ass like all these other SMFs, you know the rest. I'm trying to yell back, ``But DEE, you don't under-STAND!'' But being as close as we were (This was during ``It's Only Rock and Roll,'' and there was no way he could hear me.) The abuse went on for what felt like an hou and a half. And the whole time I'm thinking, `This is SOOO wrong! If he only knew!'' So years and years later when I finally get to meet the band, I tell Dee and Jay Jay this story, needing some public absolution. Dee seemed amused; Jay says, straight out: ``Dude: You F--ed up. You get ONE shot. You blew it!'' It was like that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza is at the tennis match, and the TV camera captures him eating ice cream with it melting and running all down his face, and he's freaking out because it was that one precise moment in time when he was vulnerable. Anyway guys, hope you know by now that I appreciate how you busted (and still do to this day) your behinds for the fans.
June 23 2009 - 03:29 pm




	Name: Ian Christe Company: Bazillion Points/Sirius XM
	Are you feeling the fire? Are you ready to explode? Stay Hungry was a triumph of manly glam, raucous multiplatinum fun that blew open the doors and made the suburbs safe for heavy metal. Killer kudos to Dee and comrades on this mile-high milestone. You're still a bunch of SMFs!
June 22 2009 - 04:04 pm




	Name: Jose Mangin Company: Sirius XM
	I was in the 1st grade and already singing their songs due to my older cousin's love for them... years later I got a chance to co-host Dee's Fangoria Radio show w/ him and also was the 1st dude to play Dee Dimmu Borgir's heavy as hell version of "Burn In Hell!" AND... I hope to be a victim with a high heel in my mouth in Strangeland 2!!!! I want to suuffffffeeeerrrrrr for Captain Howdy! Oh shit, and hosting the 20th anniv. of MTV's Headbangers Ball w/ him was a dream come true!!! Here's to 25 years of pure rock, thank you for molding me into the person I am today!!!
June 22 2009 - 01:31 pm




	Name: Eddie Trunk Company:
	Stay Hungry was the first TS release that I fully got that the band was from America! Up to that point I always had to get TS music on import. I remember always reading about them in Kerrang, seeing the video for You Can't Stop R&R shot in the UK, hearing that Lemmy was a fan; as a young kid I just assumed they were from the UK! I was a bit to young to see them on the NYC/NJ club circuit in the early days. Working in a record store at the time Stay Hungry came out everything came together and I got a whole new understanding of the bands history. I recall when the record took off just selling copies of the album and cassette right out of the WEA cardboard boxes. As I sold tons of that album and rang it up at the register, I was happy to see that the band that I thought was my import store little secret was now massive! Happy 25th to TS on this landmak release. Eddie Trunk
June 22 2009 - 12:50 pm




	Name: EP Company: Private
	Saw TS on the Stay Hungry tour, and it rocked! Dee & the boys were great, even with Dee cussin' at the crowd like a drunken sailor. Those were the days.
June 21 2009 - 07:11 pm




	Name: Sean Company: WEA
	I had a picture of the Stay Hungry Album cover that i had gotten from Circus Magazine in my locker in High School. I remember everybody thought I was a freak because of it...Look where I am now!!!
June 19 2009 - 01:02 am




	Name: Jason Price Company: Icon Vs. Icon
	I still remember the day I brought Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry' home. Larger then life characters, decked out in makeup and sporting an over-the-top rock n' roll sound have kept me hooked for over 25 years. Looking back on that day always brings a smile to my face.
June 18 2009 - 09:53 pm




	Name: Chris Akin Company: The Classic Metal Show
	I've told this story to Dee before, but I'm happy to share it again... Around '84 or '85, I first saw Twisted Sister as a kid, with Dokken and a band called Big Bam Boo at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, OH. The show kicked ass. I was about 15 at the time I guess. I went with my mom, who somehow had actually scored backstage passes to meet the band after the show. I was in line at the gig when Dee Snider's sharpie died (I believe...I don't know what happened for sure). Dee finished up by taking pictures and shaking hands, but wasn't signing stuff for the rest of us in line. I was pretty bummed out, and was pretty much showing it as I wanted the Dee Snider autograph. Dee saw me and walked over to me and said, "go over there and tell that guy your mailing address and I'll send you an autograph". He pointed me to a manager or assistant or whatever, who took my name and address. Most times, and with most bands, the story would have ended here I would imagine. Not with Twisted Sister. A couple of weeks later, I received a giant box in the mail. It was full of albums, cassettes, buttons, patches, 3 different Twisted Sister T-shirts and a note that said, "I'm good to my word. Dee Snider". Was this going the extra mile for some dumb kid in middle America that really had no ties at all to Twisted Sister? Absolutely. But that's what Twisted Sister has always been - fans first, rock stars second, and cool always. As I moved into the world of radio and journalism in the 90s, I've always done whatever I could to repay the favor that Dee laid on me as a kid. Bought every release from Widowmaker, Twisted Sister, Desperado, and even Dee's solo live stuff. Went to every live thing Dee's done in my town since. Saw Dee's movie, and bought both cuts of it on DVD. Maybe it's stupid that something as small as sending me a box of swag made me a lifelong fan, but I can say in all honesty that I stopped being a fan and became an SMF the day that box came in the mail. It's been an enjoyable ride with Twisted Fuckin' Sister! Chris Akin
June 17 2009 - 07:49 pm




	Name: Anonymous Company: Private
	The video for 'We're Not Gonna Take It' was my favorite that year. I used to like to recite the Mark Metcalf "monologue". Dramatic, Bombastic and a true Classic!
June 17 2009 - 12:55 pm